Red Wings Lost

Famous quotes containing the words red, wings and/or lost:

    “From behind the red gates comes the stink of wine and meat, while along the road sides lie the bones of the frozen dead.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “butter fat goosegirls, bounced in a gambo bed,
    Their breasts full of honey, under their gander king
    Trounced by his wings in the hissing shippen, long dead
    And gone that barley dark where their clogs danced in the spring....”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    “Lord, who createdst man in wealth and store,
    Though foolishly he lost the same,
    Decaying more and more,”
    —George Herbert (1593–1633)